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A louse in the locks of literature.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Criticism, Locks, Literature

Said of Churton Collins to Edmund Gosse, in Evan Charteris 'Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse' (1931) ch. 14

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

World, Individual, Shore

1842 Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.141-2.

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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Common Sense, Simplicity, Sublime

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Art, Husband, Wife

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Years, Mind

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 405

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She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthly bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Sweet, Heart

'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happy, New Year, Years

In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Acceptance, Bygones, Lost

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Mind, Noble

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer, Weed, Heart

In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Eagles, Wrens, World

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.544, Delphi Classics

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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Earth, Faults

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 132

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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dream, Prayer, Night

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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The thrall in person may be free in soul

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Soul, May, Persons

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.954, Delphi Classics

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Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Kings, Dying

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

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Either sex alone is half itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Sex, Men

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Inspirational, Death, Light

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 50

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And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Experience, Teach, Folly

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Stupid, Sin

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But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Single, Independent, Air

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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Heart, Blow

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Cups, Born

1842 Poems,'The Vision of Sin', pt.4, stanza 9, l.95-8.

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And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dew, Bows, Paint

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.135, Broadview Press

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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Crazy, Men, Mad

'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer, Stars, Fighting

'The Revenge' (1878) st. 9

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Born: August 5, 1809
Died: October 6, 1892
Occupation: Poet
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